Pell City Steak House Restaurant

Best "meat & 3" around at lunch.  Dinner menu is different and not nearly as good. Stick to classic southern specialties and you'll get a good lunch.

This place was ehh, well, I've had better. It was recommended by someone local, so we went. Mistake. The french fries were really good however. The burger would have been good had it been a little thicker. The onion slice served with the burger was waaaaay too thick! It was as thick as the meat! I'd say they need to invest in a slicer because you could tell it was cut with a knife. It was thicker on one side than the other as well. I heard someone else complaining about the same thing. That was my hubby's order...an onion burger & fries, and mine was a catfish plate. The fish was a little over cooked with hard edges and it was not allowed to drain off good because there was too much grease on the plate. Also, it was obvious they did not use a fryer basket because the fish was loaded with all the extra corn meal that fell off when fried. I could hardly eat for having to dust the meal off of me...even after I got home. I ate right over my plate, but you would have thought I ate it with my hands over my lap. Hushpuppies were pretty good though. Tartar sauce was terrible. It was sweet, like they made it with a diet or light mayo because it had a jiggly pudding consistency. That would be an item I would order from a distributor if I couldn't make it any better. A lady behind me was complaining about it as well. Also, on the catfish plate they put lettuce, a slice of tomato, and about 6 pickle slices...for what I do not know because I wasn't having a sandwich. And when they put the pickles on the plate, they didn't bother to drain those off either because my fish was lying in that grease & pickle juice. It came with 3 onion rings, which the batter was not really a batter and more of a flakey crust that fell off the onion too easily and they were also over cooked. I noticed over half of the customers there ordered burgers, so that must be what they go there for because besides the one other lady with catfish, I believe I saw chicken fingers or something like that on one other person's plate. Oh and the sides...there was a list of maybe four side items besides the salad and choice of baked potato or fries offered on every plate. The 1000 Island dressing was very similar to the tarter...undesirable. I guess if you want a burger, this would be the place to go for one closer to being home-cooked because there's plenty of fast food burger places around. As far as eating similar foods, I'd go back on the other side of I-20 and eat at Golden Rule BBQ...their food like this is more consistent.

Meat and 3 hard to beat but great baked chicken and all the veggies you could ever ask for...owner is on deck and even serving.